From An Atlas of a Difficult World

I have spent the last three days, on and off, reading Rawls and Dworkin and other writers on liberal egalitarianism - and it's bleeding into my thought processes; today I asked myself, should I do the washing up? and answered, yes, today I want to be an altruistic welfare-maximiser - and today, mostly reading about the liberal feminist critiques of the orthodoxy. There are, of course, criticisms to be made of liberal feminism too - not ones which you can easily shoehorn into Finals essays, but that's a rant for another time - so I've been reading some published attacks on heteronormativity, most notably "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence", which is an interesting essay worth reading, certainly, although again, I might have trouble using it in an exam essay.

But, that's not the point. I didn't make the connection the first time I read it that this is Adrienne Rich, whom I know not as a political theorist but as a poet. So rather than my boring you all to death with my political theory revision, I'd rather post this. It's my favourite poem by Adrienne Rich, it's pretty much my favourite poem, and I'm not someone who likes a lot of poetry:

From An Atlas of a Difficult World

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